The Ebonyi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called out Governor Nyesom Wike over his comment following the sack of Governor Umahi and his Deputy, Dr Kelechi Igwe.
Wike had in a comment over the weekend urged Umahi to return the mandate he got on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
However, in a statement on Sunday, Ebonyi State APC Chairman, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha said Wike’s outburst is evident to the fact that the Nigerian judiciary was being influenced by powerful forces.
According to the statement, “The attention of the Ebonyi State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been drawn to the reckless outburst of the primitive Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. The Rivers State Governor was reacting to the very unjust and widely condemnable Federal High Court ruling which recently sacked Governor Umahi and his Deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe.
“After listening to Governor Wike’s reckless tirades against Governor Umahi, which is very characteristic of him, the Ebonyi APC feels obligated to reply the garrulous, highly pompous but poorly performing Governor of Rivers State, and to place him where he rightly belongs. This is more so given that he has achieved nothing other than violence, turbulence and destruction of people’s hard-earned property ever since he became the Governor of Rivers State.”
It said, “Nigerians are very much aware that there is no comparison between the widely rated performing Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Chief David Umahi, and the power-drunk Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, in any area, as Governor Umahi clearly surpasses the sleeping Governor of Rivers state in all indexes of performance both in private life and in Public service.”
The party said Umahi had since appealed the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which removed him from office, adding that Wike’s ranting was a mere indication of the rot in Nigeria’s democracy “that a Governor of a state will have no qualms in publicly reprimanding and threatening to deal with a fellow Governor over an issue that is before a court of competent jurisdiction.”
